After decades of chipping away at America’s Christian heritage, the liberal enforcers of “equality” and “tolerance” are more open about the brave new future they envision: It’s their way or nobody’s way.

The Democrats are still trying to get through the famous five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. They’re still stuck on denial. How could such a thing happen when we’re so wise, so good, so compassionate, so sincere?

Thank God the government doesn’t run the cellphone industry. If it did, phones would cost twice as much, be too heavy to carry, have rotary dials on them, and we’d still be paying for “roaming” minutes.

After the thrashing Barack Obama and his party got in last week’s elections, it is now clear that the Democrats are leaderless and in disarray, and he is no longer relevant in the domestic-policy battles of his last two years in office.

Grubergate, gruberish, grubered, grubermania, moneygrubering and gruberpalooza are among the new terms that have sprung into public use, these inspired by one particular economist who made an unfortunate comment about Obamcare, transparency and the mental capacity of Americans recently. But such things spawn instant culture. All the new nouns and verbs - some capitalized, some not - are now appearing in multiple print and online reports from Time, Bloomberg, Fox News, Powerline, Lucianne.com and many other sources. What with Twitter hashtags and jaunty dialogue, the usage has been spirited in recent days.

"Does Walker sizzle? Not exactly. Is he a particularly charismatic speaker? No, he isn't. But does he sit upon a throne made of the skulls of his enemies? Yes, yes he does. The November 4 election proved that in a definitive fashion. And though we are a constitutional republic not given to men upon thrones, this particular throne deserves consideration for a national position," observes Federalist writer Rich Cromwell observes.

The novelist Penelope Fitzgerald is not every reader's cup of tea. She firmly believed that "less is more," so her novels are brief. They are also cryptic and elliptical; packed with brilliant scenes, funny at times, but dark, too, and a little unsettling.

MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, one of the chief architects of Obamacare, told audiences at several insiders' meetings that the American people are stupid, and so to pass a bill that the people don't want all you have to do is hide what you're doing.

If it stands, President Obama's unconstitutional executive order on illegal immigration will butcher the middle class and hang them up on a meat hook to bleed out economically over the next generation.

Gov.-elect Larry Hogan wants to help Maryland grow by slashing taxes, but there's a problem. Any law the Republican chief executive vetoes can be sent back with the override of the supermajority of Democrats who retain their grip on Annapolis.

Jerry Brown is stepping up for an unprecedented fourth term as governor of California, but nobody would call his economic performance particularly distinguished. The Cato Institute ranks him as the nation's most fiscally inept governor on its Governors Report Card for 2014.

Why are no journalists pursuing the real possibility that Edward Snowden was "in the tank" with the Russians from the get-go, or at the very least was in cahoots with the Russians prior to his arrival at his Hong Kong safe house?

"Consumers window-shop on Obamacare 2.0" (Web, Nov. 11) mentions various options and websites available for the upcoming Obamacare sign-up period. However, what if you would like to first see the options available to you without divulging any personal information? There is a site that allows you to do so.

Based on our recent diplomatic and political problems with Turkey and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, I was not surprised to note that three U.S. sailors were recently assaulted in Istanbul, without being aided by the local authorities.